At some point, in certain kinds of mental work, you're not doing the work any more, it is kind of self assembling – but those ideas we have and are often proud of, they come from somewhere.
People sometimes ask, "where did you get that idea?" The answer is always "it just popped into my head." Any kind of idea.
Some people, scientists among them, knew that the ideas didn't just pop - that there are certain parts of mind space where different purposes are better served and particular objectives more likely to be achieved.
Mediate and go there.
Some people are good at it. They have good results. There are many different systems. Even systems dedicated to moral neutrality.
then historically - like the wizards in Tolkien - some people's egos are their downfall. They are inflated then carried away by what they think they can do, losing track of the fact "they" do nothing.
The ideas pop into our heads from somewhere.
A person who is greedy, who has material desires, is a prisoner of another reality and immediately attracts adverse forces. The tempter doesn't come and go, he's right there. And should this force choose he will bend em and break em until they believe God set them above other men and the law.
They're possessed, become sheep killing dogs, or evil wizards instead of the shepherds, which it was within their capacity to be.
Thousand of Spirits move among us unseen, while we wake, and while we sleep. Milton said so and he was right. If the ambitious person consents, invites or actually solicits demonic attention - they'll get curb service hell on earth.
Prayer is what protects us. Our prayer protects others, visible and not. One cannot OD on prayer.
Memeing and digging also good.